Financing Strategies

CFW View: Investor reaction to Amgen's latest acquisition, of KAI Pharmaceutical, is difficult to gauge due to macroeconomic factors over shadowing the share price contraction on the... 2012-04-11

CFW View: Pharmaceutical and healthcare companies will increasingly engage in de-diversification. The primary motive is to capitalise on the current investor affectation for having... 2012-03-30

BP is the latest oil company to tie up acreage in the sought after Utica shale formation. The lease acquisition will help boost the company's onshore portfolio and give it access to... 2012-03-30

Mobile commerce technology provider Monitise has agreed to acquire rival Clairmail as part of a plan to expand its presence in the global mobile banking and mobile payments markets... 2012-03-28

The market for asset-backed securities (ABS) has made something of a renaissance in the US of late. According to data provider Dealogic, y-t-d 2012 US ABS value has reached US$37.2bn,... 2012-03-27

On March 19 Bell Canada revealed plans to acquire Astral Media for CAD3.38bn. The transaction will see Bell take ownership of 100% of Astral's non-voting shares at nearly a 40% premium... 2012-03-20

Broadband pipeline operators Zayo Group and AboveNet have agreed a US$2.2bn deal that will see long-haul fibre specialist AboveNet become part of Zayo. The combination would bulk... 2012-03-20

Private equity investment strategy is shifting. Due to volatile market conditions, restricted credit opportunities and an uncertain economic future, fund managers have been forced to... 2012-03-20

Known until recently as Hansen Natural, the Monster Beverage Corporation, which makes the tremendously popular Monster-branded energy drinks, saw its share price fly in 2011 on the... 2012-03-19

Whilst European banks have been consolidating and restructuring in the midst of the eurozone debt crisis, US banks have seen a real troth in deal activity. However, this may be about... 2012-03-14